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Emotion labor and affect in transnational encounters: Insights from Western-trained TESOL professionals in Saudi Arabia

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dc.contributor.authorAbdullah Alshakhi
dc.contributor.authorPhan Le Ha
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-26T02:49:49Z
dc.date.available2025-11-26T02:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractInformed by an ethnographic qualitative research study conducted with expatriate teachers of English in Saudi Arabia, we examine emotion(al) labor in the context of transnational mobilities with regards to cultural and institutional tensions. Engaged with wide-ranging interdisciplinary literature on emotion and affect, we discuss the place of transnational emotion(al) labor in four inter-related manifestations: (a) struggles and efforts to interact and communicate with students; (b) internalization and resentment of privilege and deficiency underlying discourses of native speakers; (c) responses to challenges from social, religious, and cultural difference; and (d) prolonged endurance, frustration, helplessness, and resistance to prescribed curriculum, testing, and top-down policy and practice. We also incorporate our reflections and emotion(al) labor as transnationally trained academics as we engage with the participants’ accounts. We show how our study could inspire dialogues with the self and conversations among researchers for support and solidarity beyond constructed boundaries of race, language, religion, ethnicity, and nationality.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ubd.edu.bn/handle/123456789/3714
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE)
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language—Study and teaching—Foreign speakers—Saudi Arabia
dc.subject.lcshTeachers of English as a second language—Psychology
dc.subject.lcshEmotional labor—Saudi Arabia
dc.subject.lcshTransnational academic mobility
dc.subject.lcshIntercultural communication—Social aspects—Saudi Arabia
dc.titleEmotion labor and affect in transnational encounters: Insights from Western-trained TESOL professionals in Saudi Arabia
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